Guilt and shame essays in French literature thought and visual culture 1st Edition by Jenny Chamarette, Jenny Higgins ISBN 3035300917 9783035300918

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ISBN 10: 3035300917

ISBN 13: 9783035300918 

Author: Jenny Chamarette, Jenny Higgins 

As theoretical positions and as affective experiences, the twin currents of contrition – guilt and shame – permeate literary discourse and figure prominently in discussions of ethics, history, sexuality and social hierarchy. This collection of essays, on French and francophone prose, poetry, drama, visual art, cinema and thought, assesses guilt and shame in relation to structures of social morality, language and self-expression, the thinking of trauma, and the ethics of forgiveness. The authors approach their subjects via close readings and comparative study, drawing on such thinkers as Adorno, Derrida, Jankélévitch and Irigaray. Through these they consider works ranging from the medieval Roman de la rose through to Gustave Moreau’s Symbolist painting, Giacometti’s sculpture, the films of Marina de Van and recent sub-Saharan African writing. The collection provides an état-présent of thinking on guilt and shame in French Studies, and is the first to assemble work on this topic ranging from the thirteenth to the twenty-first century. The book contains nine contributions in English and four in French.

Table of contents:

1: Introduction
2: Guilt, Shame and Masculine Insufficiency: The Case of La Fille du Comte de Pontieu
3: ‘Si en i ot de teus qui i conterent plus lor honte que leur honour’: Enadain et Gau
4: The Shame of the Rose: A Paradox
5: Guilt’s Reconfiguration of Time and Relational Ties in Seventeenth-Cent…
6: Quand le langage spirituel plaide coupable: linguistique et péché au XVIIe sièc…
7: Guilt and Desire in the Dream World: Gustave Moreau and Jean Moréas
8: L’Impardonnable, l’imprescriptible et l’exigence éthique de pardon
9: Psyché: le péché originel
10: Guilt and Shame in Occupation Narrative: Reading the Open Secret and Cultural Amnesia…
11: Trauma, Witness, Form: Thinking Walter Benjamin with Alberto Giacometti
12: ‘Whispering on the Threshold of the Flesh’: The Breathing Body, Silence and Emb…
13: Remembering Flesh: Morvern Callar as an Irigarayan Alice
14: ‘For a Minute, Their Sense of the Ways of the World Was Ruptured, Just by Looking…

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